Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-23
KANSAS PROHIBITION.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BRADFORD
TALKS ABOUT ITS SUCCESS.

Tow the Liquor Men Threaten Him-The
Success of Woman suffrage-The Future
of Prohibition-Gossip About Ingalls, and
r. j. Plumb.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, June Is.
The Hon. 8. B. Bradford, the attorney
general Of Kansas, has made national repu-
tation for the manner in which he has en-
forced the prohibitory laws of that state. He
has drawn down the enmity Of the liquor men
Of Kansas upon him and has had sone strik-
ing experience. Three times he has been shot
at and he has filed away in his desk at Topeka
200 letters threatening his life. These letters
are anonymous ones; some Of them are signed
with pistols and collins, others with death
heads and cross bones and all ahlaze with
threats. In the meantime Attorney General
Bradford has gone steadily on his way en-
forcing the laws OF Kansas, and when met
him last night at the Riggs house he told me
that be thought prohibition had come to Kan
sas to stay. Said he:
"By the new law which passed this year and
which goes into effect the 1st of May, think
the, places where liquor is sold in Kansas will
| be reduced to one place for each 1850 people.
lLaSU january UQeIo were 0UU SdlOOIS III
Leavenworth alone. By the 18th Of March
there was not one left in Leavenworth
county. The lowest fine for the selling of
liquor in Kansas is 800, together with all
the costs of the case, including $25 in at
torney's fees and also thirty days in the
county Jail. This is the penalty for each and
every sale Of liquor proved, and the law is
so worded that the fines and the terms Of i'm
prisonment can be piled up In Shawnee
county there is man worth $50, 900 in Jail.
He has been sentenced to seven months i'm
prisonment and 500 fine. Before this law
passed he was q wholesale liquor dealer, but
he thought he could make fortune by going
into partnership with number Of drug
stores and having the drug stores sell the
liquor on the sly. His name did not appear
in these partnerships. The druggists were,
however, found guilty of liquor selling and
he was implicated with them. His riches
does not save him, and the laws of Kansas
are pretty well enforced without regard to the
wealth or position Of the criminal.
"Can you convict men for liquor selling rs
easily as for the ordinary crimes on the cal
endar?"
eyes. investigated this matter. I wrote
to all the clerks of courts in Kansas. and
found that in the case of liquor selling 81 per
CeHU. Oh I'LL UHOSo uFleu were cOnVlCUeu. IN
ordinary crimes only SO per cent. were con,
victed. Public sentiment in Kansas is en-
tirely in favor of prohibitory law, and we
have little trouble now in enforcing it. A
great change of sentiment is going on, and
the day will come when it will be almost i'm
possible for a drunkard to exist in Kansas.
Already in thirty seven counties Of the state
counties which have an aggregate of 500,-
600 people-the average amount Of liquor sold
| is one bottle Of beer to every eight persons
during eighty days. These localities are
where they have no saloons, and in these
counties the amount of liquor sold amounted
to only $4,000 a month, while in Leaven-
worth county the sales of liquor amounted to
$4, 900 month, or 81 40 per month for every
man, woman and child in the city, or to an
aggregate of 100000 per year. We have,
however, cut off this liquor dealing in Leaven,
worth, as 1 told you before"
"What has become Of st. Johns"
ave do not keep track of St. John In Kan
| sas and we do not pretend to answer any
| question in regard to him."
| "Tell me something about the municipal
! suffrage of Kansas.
"By municipal suffrage, as distinguished
from universal suffrage, in Kansas, IS meant
the recent law which permits women to vote
lOT I'LL Guy tilCtTS. his law mas gone into
effect and we have had our first election un
der it. The best women in Kansas have
voted and the election went off better thar
any in our previous history. One of our law.
prohibits ticket peddlers from coming within
fifty feet of the polls. There were no objection
| able characters among the females who voted
as far as could be learned, and the element
taking advantage of the suffrage was made
up of the best of Kansas women. The
women attended the caucuses which nomi
mated the various candidates, and the election
shows that better and higher grade OF can
didates were chosen than in the past Thi.
woman suffrage strengthens the prohibitory
| element in Kansas and prohibition feeling il
| very fast growing. have no doubt but thai
| prohibition will eventually be a great IA
tional issue in this country and that the
United States will ultimately be prohibition
country"
Elbow Is Kansas satisfied with its two SEN
atorss"
every we'll indeed, and it feels that it has q
right to be proud of them. Ingalls, is great
statesman and great orator, and Plumb is
q great statesman and a great financier We
think a great deal Of Plumb out in Kansas.
He is one of the solid men of tho west, and j,
worth, l suppose, 81 ,000, 900. He has made
established a printing Office at Elnpora, and
studied and practiced law there. He saved
his money and became a banker. lie specu-
lated and invested, and he now owns lands
all over Kansas. He is man of great com.
mon sense, is unpretentious in both his man.
ners and life, and is noted both for his gener.
osity and charity.
"Ingalls lives at Atchison, and is well to do
He has many friends, and he is noted in Kan
sas for loving his friends and not caring very
much for his enemies. The people of the
west are proud of the reputation which he
has made within the past few years. and they
feel that in him they have one Of the biggest
men in the country as their representative"
met Senator Plumb, of Kansas, last night
and had chat with him over the interstate
commerce law. Senator Plumb thinks that
the law will be Of great ultimate benefit to
the country. He says that it will njure some
OF the large corporations and some interests
at the beginning, but that in the end it viii
work great good to the country at large ut
will have, says he, "the effect of distributing